]]>By: AnilGhttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74555
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:17:04 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74555In my current and previous organisation we have mandated non IE browsers for Mac and Windows platforms not because the organisation wanted to, but because there were measurable negative outcomes from using IE.

In my previous organisation that was because of IE6, no one is surprised, but this time IE6 is officially not supported and we chose Firefox and Safari against IE 7 and 8. Because we experienced specific IE related issues with the web software the organisation is relying on we were forced to standardise on FF for Windows as the mandated browser.

The majority of our IE usage is external customers (non corporate). Internally we are minimising IE because it performs poorly and incurs additional cost in support calls.

]]>By: shaniquehttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74554
Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:59:16 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74554marvellous. about time IE just melts down completely, and please FAST!
]]>By: Craig Bucklerhttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74553
Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:05:27 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74553It will depend on your website’s audience. Technical sites, such as SitePoint, attract people in IT who are more likely to understand what a browser is and the options available. Real numbers of IE users have dropped dramatically on SitePoint even though traffic has grown.

I have clients with 70% IE users, but they usually have public sector audiences. General sites, such as shops, match StatCounter with 50% IE traffic. Technical sites have 20% or lower.

Therefore deathshadow60, I suspect your site’s audience are either large corporations, public sector workers, IT novices or you’re offering IE-specific content (such as add-ons).

]]>By: awassonhttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74552
Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:39:14 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74552@deathshadow60, in your stats, what version of IE are the users using? That IMO is more important than anything else. If the increase in IE users are using IE8 which would make sense in your particular scenario, then congratulations. What has happened to the percentage of IE6/IE7 users; has it gone up or down?
]]>By: deathshadow60https://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74551
Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:53:28 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74551Then is your userbase imploding or something? Less users and visits than you used to have? It’s the only way for said claim to make the least bit of sense.

If I look at percentages the past five years on my highest traffic english language site where 90% of users are in the US and under the age of 24, (forums with 30K posts/mo) my userbase has tripled in size, and I’m still seeing 70% IE use vs. the 90% of 2005.

Which means I have more IE users than there were.

What share means is what percentage of the market, the market has grown so the number of people using IE hasn’t dropped even if their share HAS.

]]>By: awassonhttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74550
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:19:34 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74550Not when 3% – 5% of the users of the sites I build are using IE6 with the numbers dropping each month it won’t. I’m getting close to pitching IE6 entirely…. I haven’t yet but the day will be soon.
]]>By: Craig Bucklerhttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74549
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:46:44 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74549I think you’re over-complicating the issue. The StatCounter statistics aren’t treating you as an individual or trying to work out your default browser.

If you go to websiteX.com with IE twice, then once with Firefox and Opera Mobile, it’s counted as 4 single browser visits — not a single visit for one person or 1 visit per browser. But that doesn’t matter; the statistics simply compare the number of visits from each device (and they include mobiles if you download the raw data).

]]>By: PatrickSamphirehttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74548
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:46:14 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74548The key thing is surely where in the IE environment the new users are coming from. If they’re taking up IE8 or IE9, this is fine, because apart from anti-IE fanatics, most of us have the real issues with IE6 and 7 hanging around rather than people using IE at all.

In any case, these stats are completely irrelevant, because what matters is the number of users on any particular site. For my sites, the absolute numbers of IE users have fallen, and the numbers of IE6 and 7 have fallen pretty fast. *That’s* what matters.

]]>By: Craig Bucklerhttps://www.sitepoint.com/ie-market-share-falls-below-50/#comment-74547
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:37:49 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/?p=27015#comment-74547Assuming you’re in the US or Europe, have the physical numbers of IE users dropped on your websites over the past few years? Even accounting for traffic increases, there are fewer IE users around.

My point is that, overall, there are more IE users worldwide. In the west, however, numbers are dropping because population growth is fairly level.